Anthony Volpe walks at a near-elite clip — better than 75% of qualified hitters. The overall production lags, though — only 29% of qualified hitters create fewer estimated bases per plate appearance.
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better.
Percentiles vs. 463 qualified hitters.
Data through 2026-07-15.
Plays like…
Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.
Every plate appearance ends one of three ways: a strikeout (0 bases), a walk (1 base), or a ball in play worth its estimated bases.
The bar splits his value into those pieces, versus the league.
More bases is better. In the table, 100th percentile = best in MLB.
Ball-in-play basesWalk bases
Bases per plate appearance
.251
.127
Anthony Volpe
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over Anthony Volpe's 158 plate appearances
60
Anthony Volpe
57
Replacement level
▲ +3 bases above replacement (created 60 vs 57)
Anthony Volpe
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.393
.510
29th
Walk rate(higher = better)
13%
8%
75th
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
23%
23%
43rd
Platoon splits
Platoon splits (EB/PA)
Dot = shrunk true-talent estimate; bar = 89% credible interval.
Faint diamond = his raw, unshrunk rate against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the model pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy estimate.
Shrunk splits beat raw splits decisively at low PA counts and converge with them as playing time builds — individual platoon gaps need roughly 1,000+ PA vs a hand before the raw number alone can be trusted.
Headline EB/PA (0.401)
vs LHP66 PA0.424
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.424 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.364 to 0.483, based on 66 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.376 EB/PA.
vs RHP93 PA0.390
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.390 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.330 to 0.444, based on 93 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.375 EB/PA.
0.3120.3590.4070.4540.501
0.034 EB/PA better vs LHP than vs RHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: -0.001 to +0.072
That interval crosses zero, so the model can’t confidently say which side he’s actually better against.
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage to Center.
Best batted balls
Where every ball Anthony Volpe put in play landed this season.
Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught.
Hover a dot or a row to link the two; click to watch on Baseball Savant.
